ScanR offers business card scanning with camera phones

ScanR Business Cards

Company: ScanR

What it does: ScanR gives you more functionality to your camera phone or digital camera, turning it into a business card scanner or document scanner. The service takes images from digital cameras or camera phones and converts them into PDFs or VCF (for business cards) files and sends the data back to a user via e-mail.

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ScanR Business Cards

Company: ScanR

What it does: ScanR gives you more functionality to your camera phone or digital camera, turning it into a business card scanner or document scanner. The service takes images from digital cameras or camera phones and converts them into PDFs or VCF (for business cards) files and sends the data back to a user via e-mail.

How it works: Users capture the image with their digital camera or camera phone (business card, document, whiteboard image). They then send the image via picture message, mobile e-mail or regular e-mail to ScanR (for example, wb@scanr.com to send whiteboard images. ScanR then converts the image into either a PDF or VCF file, then sends an e-mail back to the user with the converted file.

Why it's cool: Cuts down on the tons of paper that we all seem to use on a daily basis. Keeps users from having to buy a separate business card scanner, copier or fax machine.

Who will use this? Business travelers who need an easier way to get all of their contacts into their Outlook, Notes or Salesforce.com systems (announced at Demo). Small businesses that want to get users to scan documents, white board drawings or other details and into a digital format.

How will the company make money? Pricing is not yet announced, but ScanR says it may offer a bunch of usages for a set price, and then move users to a subscription model (unlimited usage per month for a fixed price).

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